Video: Tim Lovejoy tackles Liege to London ride

A 300-mile, three-day trek opposite northern Europe will make or mangle Lovejoy’s seductiveness in cycling (BikeRadar.com)

Fans of Sky Sports’ football uncover Soccer AM will know a former presenter Tim Lovejoy is a insane penetrating sports fan. With his friendship to football and his dear Chelsea FC, competition is a pivotal partial of his life.

By his possess acknowledgment though, cycling has never been on his radar. At all. So when World Champion and Right to Play envoy Mark Cavendish seemed on his BBC uncover Something for a Weekend and goaded him into holding partial in a sports growth charity’s annual 300-mile float from Liege to London, a cyclephobic Lovejoy skeptically agreed.

With a time ticking on to a 30 Jun tour, we held adult with him during Sigma Sport’s store in Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey as he done his indeterminate initial stairs in his query to get in figure for a epic event. This is a initial in a multi-part series, so stay tuned for some-more in a entrance weeks.